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Sri Lanka: Government consumption (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1950–2025 · 76 observations · gcons_GDP

2025
6.75%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.2 pointsfrom 6.96%
Average, 2016–2025
8.12%10 years
Record high and low
10.4% (2020)low 4.63% (1981)

Government consumption (% of GDP)

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Percent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
20256.75
20246.96
20236.78
20227.23
20219.45
202010.4
20198.97
20188.61
20177.85
20168.17

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Sri Lanka documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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